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Lyrics, Scripts and Languages. Religious verse and song in a multilingual setting Dr Andrey Rosowsky – University of Sheffield. Sociology of Language and Religion Conference: A Decade after Roehampton. NYU Kimmell Center – July 18 2013. ‘translocal’ and ‘translocalities’.

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I started with the local radio, Radio Ramadan. They started playing the naat and I really enjoyed them. I went down to the local bookshop and bought some CDs ...At first my interest was in the sounds. (Akhtar)

Even if we don’t understand it, we can see the love coming out. (Akhtar)

The listeners can go either way. They may listen and not understand and withdraw from that [practice]. Others may have the opposite effect and say ‘right, I want to understand that, what he’s reciting’ and take that step forward to try and learn about the language. So it can go either way. (Shazad)

Reciting naat in Urdu is not developing speaking and listening skills but it is picking up key words...but you wouldn’t be able to have a conversation with a person. (Aisha)

You get the feelings, special feelings through the words that you can’t get in English. Maybe in 50 years or so there will be a poet who writes naat in English...that when people read it they will feel that love coming out of the words...but you can’t get in English at the moment what you get in Urdu or Arabic. (Shahid)

Our parents do not really understand that there is such a thing as naat/nasheed in English. All their lives they’ve heard naat in Urdu. They’ve never thought someone could be praising the Prophet in English also.’ (Hamid)

I may need to ask about verse 3 of a particular naat for example. This can be followed by a discussion, ‘I think it means this’, ‘I think it means that’. There can be totally different meanings. It’s good for sharing and checking understanding because the Urdu word can have two or three different meanings. (Shazad)

We’re talking about the internet, but what about mobile phones? All the young Muslims have their music and they share their nasheeds...That’s really powerful as well. (Tanveer)

Whenever you come to a mehfil (gathering) you’ll always see some kids at the back blu-toothing each other, blu-toothingnaats to each other or blu-toothingnasheeds. (Tariq)

Rosowsky, A. (2011) Heavenly Singing: the practice of naat and nasheed and its possible contribution to reversing language shift among young Muslim multilinguals in the UK. International Journal of Sociology of Language. 212.

Rosowsky, A. (2010) "Writing it in English": script choices among young multilingual Muslims in the UK. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 31, 2.